Văn Cao

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Văn Cao
Born
Nguyễn Văn Cao

(1923-11-15)15 November 1923
Hai Phong, French Indochina
Died10 July 1995(1995-07-10) (aged 71)
Hanoi, Vietnam
NationalityVietnamese
OccupationComposer
Known forComposing music
Notable work
"Tiến Quân Ca"

Văn Cao (born Nguyễn Văn Cao, Vietnamese pronunciation: [ŋʷjə̌ˀn van kaːw]; 15 November 1923 – 10 July 1995) was a Vietnamese composer whose works include "Tiến Quân Ca," which became the national anthem of Vietnam.[1][2] He, along with Phạm Duy and Trịnh Công Sơn, is widely considered one of the three most salient figures of 20th-century (non-classical) Vietnamese music.[3] He was also a noted poet and a painter.

Career[]

After the Nhân Văn–Giai Phẩm affair, a movement for political and cultural freedom in 1956, he had to stop composing. Most of his songs, except "Tiến Quân Ca" - "Làng Tôi" - "Tiến Về Hà Nội" - and "Trường Ca Sông Lô," were prohibited in North Vietnam.

All of his songs were once again authorized in Vietnam until after the Đổi Mới, 1987.

In 1991, the American composer Robert Ashley composed the solo piano piece Văn Cao's Meditation, which is based on the image of Văn Cao playing his piano.

Works[]

  • Songs
    • "" (1945) ("Song for marines")
    • "" (1945) ("Bac-Son - a guerrilla center during the war with French colonialism")
    • "" (music by Văn Cao, words written together with Phạm Duy) (1942) (Ben xuan idk)
    • "" (Vietnamese flock of birds)
    • "" (1939, the first song of Văn Cao)
    • "" (1945) ("Vietnamese soldiers")
    • "" ("Melody of the past")
    • "" ("A night in the mountain")
    • "" (1942) ("Dong-Da Hillock")
    • "" (1941)
    • "" (1947) ("My Village")
    • "" (1945) ("Vietnamese air force")
    • "" ("Tomorrow")
    • "" (1948) ("Harvest")
    • "" ("Dream stream")
    • "" (Thang Long marching song)
    • "" (1941) ("paradise")
    • ""
    • "" (March on Ha Noi?)
    • "Tiến Quân Ca" (1944) (Army marching song)
    • "" (Trung du's love song)
    • "" (1943) ("not a word but a name")
    • "" (1947) ("Lo river epic")
    • "" (1975) ("First Spring")
    • "" (1976) ("First Spring")
  • Poems
    • "" ("Do you hear?". Published in "Giai phẩm" Spring (Feb) 1956)
    • "" ("Days with signs of a spring to come")
    • "" (1988) ("Leaves")

References[]

  1. ^ Dale Alan Olsen Popular Music of Vietnam: The Politics of Remembering 2008 "Văn Cao" p36-37, p129-130
  2. ^ Shepherd Continuum encyclopedia of popular music of the world "Văn Cao"
  3. ^ "Trinh Cong Son's love songs hit Hue palace". Tuổi Trẻ. 30 March 2011. Archived from the original on 2 April 2011.

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